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Go into game options and click the "Skip Intro" checkbox... problem solved.

[quote who="ARFF1Tampa" reply="16" id="2773687"]How are you supposed to get your adventure level up from 1? Research adventure tree and more stuff / sites appear but I'm always too low to use them. [/quote] Keep researching the Quest adventure tree.... researching the recruiting and resource adventure trees don't help.

Elemental has a great future and while the start is rocky... the end result will be terrific. The free expansion would be worth buying the game even now.

[quote who="Oghier" reply="4" id="2773521"]Development resources are limited. I'd rather they were spent on the mode with the most replayability -- sandbox. [/quote] Exactly ! If you want a deep campaign wait for the map makers to create them.

So I just started watching the movie clip about CIV_5 and noticed some important game options missing from Elemental. 1) Random Personalities - Elemental has one AI personality for all AI opponents. Hopefully modding will become available so the community can create the personalities while Stardock fixes the game. 2) One City Challenge - This would definitely provide a better challenge, but the end game score shoul

[quote who="revjwh" reply="33" id="2772564"] To the many others who got the point [/quote] Currently money doesn't come from the cities... you find some money from monsters, but you find the most money from level3 or higher notable locations(chests). Also being at war brings a good chunk of money not only from the kills, but just ask an AI opponent about going to war with somebody they know and there's a couple hundred gold. Currently the

[quote who="DeadlyShoe" reply="78" id="2771763"]Dominions skates by on like... 3 sprites per unit, though. Hehe. EWOM certainly cant change to an entirely different graphics model at this point. [/quote] I'm not saying changing to a different graphics model... just saying there's no need to place such a high importance on graphics. Once everything with a new game is solid and working smoothly then a sequel can provide better graphics otherwise the original g

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="11" id="2757293"] Quoting xMoMx, reply 10 Tbh remove teleport completely. It kills strategic aspect of the game. Let us foresee enemy moves and counter them with armies placed beforehand at proper points. We wanna play with geography of our magical worlds. Well said [/quote] The ability to teleport a single unit should be limited... something like scroll

[quote quoting="post"] The Lost Bounty This breakthrough reveals new Food Resources in the world. Any passerby might stumble upon the more obvious sources of fertile soils, but adventurers regularly tell stories regarding isolated paradises in the wild rife with food. When you finally achieve it, usually some kind of food resource appears in your ZOC. However, if I create a city after I achieve "The Lost Bounty" does that one get an extra food sour

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="2770726"]The AI is painful right now because there are too many O(N^3) systems in the game that make AI being intelligent very difficult. Balance and more refined mechanics will help and make the game more fun IMO. But we're going to run things by you guys before we do anything too radical. [/quote] If you could release some modding integration for custom AI personalities I'm sure the modding community would love to help provide mul

[quote who="DeadlyShoe" reply="76" id="2771742"] This is not accurate and the reviews of other games tell the truth. When playing an RPG I would be plenty satisfied with Diablo_2 style graphics. I'm pretty sure istaris point is that E:WOM needs to do more than draw 24(?) sprites to add a unit. (8 facing, 8 attack, 8 move.) Units need 3d models and appropriate animations; you cant just add (say) a Great Wyrm with the same amount of effort you spend on adding an

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="2770739"] The quest system is very powerful but also very complex. [/quote] Does this mean we'll be able to have quests where multiple options appear for the gamer such as: You see a sleeping darkling shaman and two sacks near his feet... what will you do: A} Kill the darkling shaman. B} Steal any belongings to the darkling shaman and ke

[quote who="Raven X" reply="13" id="2770118"] Making the ZOC spread out faster could fix these issues very easily with a very limited amount of effort. I really hope they take this into account for the next patch or at least soon, because it makes the world pale in comparison to what it should look like. [/quote] Well this alone will not stop the city spam... because inserting new cities inside your ZOC will each provide 1 gold, 1 material, 1 arcane... and

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="58" id="2768771"] Unit attributes (attack, defense, wisdom, etc): changing the # of attributes units have as well as what they influence. All tactical combat mechanics / features All aspects of the AI All aspects of city development All aspects of the GUI (graphics, new windows, positions, etc) All aspects of magic / shards / mana / etc All aspects of quests In short - allow for total conversion mods. [/quote]

I agree with Daynarr .... the only change needed would be on the opponents screen where a setting could change the difficulty for all AI opponents instead of somone manually changing 8 different opponents while keeping the game difficulty setting different.

[quote who="Yehudah" reply="3" id="2769460"]It's a major bug and kills gameplay for me. I'm looking for a nice relaxed game (On easy, heh heh) and here comes the Ai with an OMG huge army that he can't pay for and doesn't have to. [/quote] Spam cities and use your border influence to block bottlenecks... building a pioneer should be your first unit from most cities unless its in a dangerous location with no help nearby. Even a city without any nearby resources can still prov

[quote who="Rabenhoff" reply="5" id="2767724"] PS Yes, I know. Game comparisons don't help much. But would you have enjoyed a CIV game where the barbarians were the main threat to your civilization ... even after the frist few turns? I don't think so. [/quote] With how weak the AI opponents currently play I wouldn't recommend changing the monsters until the AI opponents are fixed... otherwise the only challenge in the game will be gone. Even on the extreme or ridiculou

We're not having epic battles and it's extremely unlikely we ever will have epic battles because way too much effort has been placed into graphics as described below: [quote who="Istari" reply="34" id="2767955"] One of the challenges I've heard discussed is that MOM was able to get away with low resolution sprite graphics. By contrast, today, people expect high resolution 3D models for everything which drives up the cost a great deal. [/quote] I've been re

[quote who="luketan" reply="51" id="2769278"] EWOM has all the elements to make the game as fun as MOM, it's just let down by poor design of specifics.. Designer went for the I'm going to try to make everything has balanced as possible, and the easiest way to do this is to make all your choices fail to matter, because all if not most choices are equally viable. [/quote] The current design in Elemental allows the strongest player to become stronge

[quote who="Istari" reply="34" id="2767955"] One of the challenges I've heard discussed is that MOM was able to get away with low resolution sprite graphics. By contrast, today, people expect high resolution 3D models for everything which drives up the cost a great deal. [/quote] If you continue with a focus and belief us TBS gamers "EXPECT" high resolution 3D models for "EVERYTHING" then your product will suffer with limited map sizes, a limited battlefield size,

[quote who="Istari" reply="34" id="2767955"] Stardock's ongoing goal with Elemental is to continue to integrate concepts from great games, particularly, MOM. [/quote] Hopefully this means will eventually see multiple realms such as the myrror realm, cavern realm(s), shadow realm, etc., since currently we only have an earth realm. Multiple players on a single battlefield would also be appreciated. Well there's plenty of great ideas in

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="11" id="2766552"]I'm not asking for battles with thousands of soldiers, I'm just asking for battles that look somewhat like the picture on the box with a couple hundred troops or so. "LOTR The Battle For Middle Earth" only had maybe a couple hundred soldiers on screen at once, but it still felt pretty epic. See, you don't actually have to have thousands upon thousands of soldiers on-screen for a battle to look epic, you just need enough so it f

[quote who="random_target" reply="2" id="2767522"]Not many options. Most units, weapons and armor types differ from one another only by stats. [/quote] [quote who="Nack210" reply="10" id="2767577"]- All units behave the same regardless of their equipment. Spearmen act the same way as swordsmen, macemen, and even cavalry. The only difference is the damage they inflict, and how much they can move. Spearmen aren't better against cavalry, cavalry is just a faster uni

[quote quoting="post"]In GalCiv if you made a truce and then wanted to break it all you had to do was attack an opponent. I put off the other kingdoms with truces until I had my army big enough but then I was ready and couldn't go back on them. Grr! Is there a way to break a truce? Sadly, I decided to get the alliance victory just to get the game over with. [/quote] Last I checked it's very easy to break a truce as long as you don't have a

What's really sad is terrain is only visual... and serves no other gameplay purposes. Fire Elementals walk across snow the same as desert, Soldiers wearing plate armor walk across swamp the same as those wearing leather, archers shoot with the same accuracy at targets in the forest as they do in grasslands, etc., etc., . Maybe someday we'll see some creativity for terrains.